Future of two Fox hosts in limbo amid investigations

Eric Bolling will be missing from his center seat on the "Fox News Specialists" on Monday. He might be missing for a long time.

On Saturday afternoon Fox News announced that it had suspended Bolling, less than 24 hours after HuffPost published a story saying more than a dozen sources confirmed that Bolling had sent female colleagues some lewd messages, including an "unsolicited" photo of male genitalia.

Bolling's attorney said "the anonymous, uncorroborated claims are untrue and terribly unfair."

The inappropriate texting allegedly happened several years ago, before any of Fox's recent sexual harassment scandals came to light.

In the post-Roger Ailes era, Fox News' parent company, 21st Century Fox, has tried to show that it is taking problems inside the network seriously.

When stories have come out about alleged wrongdoing, the company has taken what it considers to be swift action.

Some industry observers think Fox will do everything it can to bring Bolling back, given that he's a rising star and one of the staunchest pro-Trump voices on the network. He signed a new long-term contract just two months ago.

Other observers think he'll never be back. They recall how Bill O'Reilly went on vacation and never returned to work amid a controversy over secret settlement payments to women who had accused him of harassment. (O'Reilly has denied all the accusations against him.)

The same law firm that represented Fox in the Ailes and O'Reilly matters, Paul, Weiss, will also handle the Bolling investigation.